Yes this makes sense.
Maybe we can add the logic like this:
when a user changes his email, his account will be disactivated, and then an email with activation code will be sent to his new email.
It can be an option.

Good point!
And as I found, most themes has suboptimized style.css file.
All theme developers should keep in mind that within CSS file, the order of tags is important. If you dont care about this, you may find the rendering is not as you expected. Also please note that within CSS file, same tag can be defined several times (as many as you like), and the latter will overwrite the former.

Example:

p td input {
font-size: 12px;
color: blue;
}

p {
background: #808080;
color: redl
}

when rendered, all p element (except that you have definitions for more concrete p elements (with class or id) will be rendered as red.

The general rule is following the html element tree, and the uplevel and general elements at the top, and class follows, and then id definitions.

The best practice:
1. the first definition should be always html, coz in the new standard, the parent of all the elements is html, not body. html can be viewed as canvas.
2. the second should be body element.
3. then general elements as div, p, td, input etc.
4. then specific definitions as
p.some
td.other
5. then comes id definitions as
div#content


I need reiterate one point:
please use all lower cases for elements (or tags as you like, though there are some different), which meands:
p instead of P
div instead of DIV

Seems i should post a normative css file as example. I'll do it a little later.

Yes you can change the character limit to larger, but please ba careful because this change may make the display messy esp when you use two column blocks. The default setting is 18 characters. For Recent News and Top Read News block, you can change like this:

open modules/news/blocks/news_top.php, within function b_news_top_show() (should be line 35-37):
change
if (strlen($title) >= 19) {
$title = substr($title,0,18)."...";
}

to
if (strlen($title) > 35 ) {
$title = substr($title,0,35)."...";
}

this way it displays 35 characters.

For other blocks, you can look into all files under blocks/ dir of the module, and change as you like. You should test to find the best character limit and it should be dependant on your theme. If you dont allow theme change, and use only one theme and the best the theme has fixed width, you can get the best result.

Try it, and be cautious.

BTW, you should know the max length of the subject is 80 characters. If you need change to longer, you can do , but the ultimate limit is 255 characters. The best you dont change, or seek help before doing.

Could you set me the html and a testing url to me at goghs@eqiao.com. I'll look into it.
Extra whilespaces may be caused by your html codes.

Hi,
I am trying to map pages made in HTML inside the Section and news part of XOOPS. I have tried freecontent, it works fine, but in need the Search mechanism to work, which happens only with content insert in the database.
When i put HTML in XOOPS, it works almost fine, i just have a problem that i don't know how to solve.
XOOPS insert in the beginning of all the content a lot of empty space, which makes my content go down in the window and not being seen right from the beginning.
I Have made the test with others CMS link postknue and Myphpnuke ( and in this case it is worse because it don't respect tables and columns).
THe test only workd if the last version of PHP-NUKE where all the content where displayed correctly.
Does any one know how to solve this problem?

REgards,
Danyblue

Is this for the recent news block? Because I know there is a fix for it. I did this fix to my block as well. Let me find it.

Ok found it... Click Here!

Hi,

The submitted news titles are being cut off by a default character limit or something and I need to edit this to display a larger length. For an example:
Recent News: Thanks for Visiti......

I need this to to display up to say 35 characters
Any help would be great..Thanks

There are plenty of business using PHP-Nuke, of which XOOPS is a project fork. Perhaps you should search for those. Then keep in mind that XOOPS has all the functionality of PHP-Nuke (and then some, in some manners), but a much friendly install and interface.

www.gametoolbox.com
www.topsite-toplist.com

2 of my sites currently still running on rc2
1st has a pretty good design n layout, second is commercial.

This is good information and I agree 100% about ensuring an commercial work would include $'s back to the XOOPS banks.

But does no one know of real-world business (Intranet or Internet) implementations ?

I'm glad this post was made sticky - as I see it's an important discussion. I challenge the user community to come up with some good references

The latest XOOPS site, XXX Uncovered is well done, but I really can't use this to show a potential client (live or screenshots)

So ...... any takers ??